Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star)
- February 22, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Department
of Energy (DOE) is evaluating 10 renewable energy projects as potential
‘Projects of National Significance’ under Executive Order (EO) 30, officials
said.
“We are still at the evaluation
stage for 10 projects. These are mostly generation projects, but we are not
excluding any entity because there are transmission projects and even resource
development,” DOE Undersecretary Jesus Posadas said.
“These are more on RE generation
projects because these are the projects usually facing issues in permitting
like NCIP (National Commission on Indigenous Peoples) and NWRB (National Water
Resources Board),” Posadas said.
EO 30 provides that government
agencies concerned with energy projects should presume other agencies were able
to act upon and issue their respective permits within a 30-day period.
The order also creates the Energy
Investment Coordinating Council (EICC), led by the DOE, which will spearhead
and coordinate national government efforts to harmonize, integrate and
streamline regulatory processes, requirements and forms relevant to the
development of energy investments in the country.
One of the projects assessed under
EO 30 is a geothermal facility, DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi said.
“There is a ready company, I just
want to make sure that there is no issue. It’s a geothermal project in the
north, somewhere in Ifugao. It’s just under evaluation,” he said.
Another project to be included in
the list is the P52-billion Visayas-Mindanao Interconnection Project (VMIP),
DOE assistant secretary Redentor Delola said. “It is among those being
evaluated,” he said.
In July 2017, the Energy Regulatory
Commission gave the go-signal to the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines to
proceed with the construction of the interconnection project via Cebu and Zamboanga.
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